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"Never," and Katy could feel just how Wilford's lips shut over his teeth as he said it; "neverWhy, positively the house seeo back to it at night, knowing how loomy Katy will be"

"My poor boy, it is worse than I feared," Mrs Caasping sob, tried to rise and go to them, to tell them she was there--the mopish Katy, who made her home so like a funeral to her husband

But her limbs refused to move, and she sank back powerless in her chair, cos which no true husband should ever say to a mother of his wife, especially when that wife's error consisted principally intoo ht have been living then" These were Wilford's very words, and though Katy had once expected him to say the her view herself as the ht otherwise have felt as he went on to speak of Silverton and its inhabitants, just as he would not have spoken had he known she was so near Then, encouraged by his ainst her, but in a hichheart throb as she whispered, sadly: "He is disappointed in me I do not co in, but I am not what his wife should be"

Wilford had not said all this, but Katy inferred it, and every nerve quivered with anguish as the ish came over her that she had died on that day when she sat in the suo and waiting for Wilford Caht her cup of sorrow full, when, alas! only a drop had as yet been poured into it But it was filling fast, and Mrs Caht have been better with Genevra," was the first outpouring of the overwhel torrent which for a ht theyunder the snow in Silverton--and her white lips answered: "Yes, it would be better," before Wilford's voice was heard, saying, as he always said: "No, I have never wished Genevra in Katy's place, though I have sometimes wondered what the result would have been had I learned in season how ed her"